Skills Design & Development
Here’s a skills profile. So relative, so subjective, so un‑scientific.
- Service Design
- UX Research
- UX Design
- Information Design
- UI Design
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design
- Frontend Development
- Backend Development
Tables. Dull, but useful! Here’s a big one breaking down my capabilities.
| Skill | Comment |
|---|---|
| Design Thinking | I’m an avid practitioner of Design Thinking and Human-centered Design. |
| UX Design | Designing user flows, CX, user journey mapping, analysis. |
| Wireframing | Information architecture design and user flows in whatever tool makes sense. |
| UI Design | Component-driven design, interaction modelling, assets, widgets, and gizmos. |
| Design systems | Style guides, UI kits, and component libraries. |
| Prototyping | Low-fidelity static prototypes, InVision, interactive HTML+CSS. |
| Tooling | High-level skills in Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. |
| Typography | I worked at Letterbox under master Typographer Stephen Banham. |
| Research | User interviews, UX testing, data collection and collation. |
| Facilitation | Co-creation workshops, scope definition and requirements gathering sessions, post-mortems and retros. |
| Documentation | Research docs, spec docs, API design docs, and everything in between. |
| Agile | Card-carrying member of the Agile Cult. |
| Information Architecture | Content auditing, wireframing, and content hierarchy design. |
| Content Design | Content development, writing and editing, asset co-ordination, text messages to my wife. |
| Place-holding | This joke intentionally left blank. |
| Languages | JavaScript, javascript, and js. Also TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, and PHP. |
| HTML | Semantic, accessible, and standards compliant (SEO, HTML5, etc). I prefer Pug, SugarML, Markdown etc. |
| CSS | Modern, or bleeding edge, with sensible fallbacks for Microsoft Internet Excruciator. |
| Command line | I can do it all with a little `-h`. |
| Version control | Git. Nothing else. |
| Code Editors | I prefer Atom, but use Sublime too. |
| Frontend frameworks | Vue, React, and will do others. |
| Node | Big fan. Happiest when I’m using Webpack and build tools. |
| Backend Development | Quite a lot of exposure to Rails, but others not so much (apart from Node). Basic server config is fine too. |
| WordPress | Yeah, I can do that, but don’t ask me to like it. |